CLASSES & JOBS

It is easier than ever to study a language whether you are an adult or a child. Language immersion programs start in elementary schools, and continue throughout secondary and collegiate levels. As early as kindergarten, in some communities, parents can apply to have their children put in classrooms taught in only Spanish to help them become bilingual.

As you advance through your language classes, your teachers will begin to educate you about culture as well as language. In high schools there are usually at least some different options for language courses. Students can decide which they are most interested in early on and then follow the program until graduation from high school. In some cases, the knowledge acquired at that level can help when reaching college. If successful in taking those courses in high school, sometimes they can test out of the early levels of language in college. Furthermore, college-sponsored study abroad options help students become multilingual by actually placing them in the environment where that language is spoken; this is more effective for some than learning language in a classroom because it forces them to learn from people who speak in different dialects and with slang.